Colombian Excelso Cauca – Fair Trade Organic – Archived

Taste: This bean represents the best of Colombia very well indeed.  It produces a full bodied coffee with medium acidity and brightness.  Lots of “classic” coffee flavor.

Roast: You won’t be disappointed with a Medium Dark/Full City roast.  Delay pulling the beans until you are a bit into 2nd crack for the best full mouthfeel and lower acidity.

About: Cooperativa Multiétnica Y Pluricultural De Pequeños Caficultores Del Cauca, or COMEPCAFE, founded in 2010 by a small-but-mighty group of 44 producers, has grown to include nearly 1,000. The name of the organization itself speaks to the structure and the community, as it is truly a cooperative effort among multi-ethnic and multicultural smallholders, the majority of whom are members of several indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups who live and work around the towns of Piendiamó and Morales. The group is committed to working not only as one with the planet, but also as a unit together, and the more than 900 affiliated farmers actually don’t hire any outside labor during the harvest season, instead preferring to take turns picking, sorting, and delivering to the co-op with each other.

COSURCA is a large 2nd level cooperative made up of more than 1300 small scale coffee farmers located in the southern state of Cauca in Colombia, which is relatively new to being one of the heaviest production zones, and now it’s being recognized for some of the highest quality within the country.

COSURCA is also passionate about taking care of the environment and works with all of its producers to establish environmentally friendly processing practices, such as filtration systems that improve the heavily saturated “honey water” which results from the washed processing methods. Also, nearly 500 member’s farms are certified for organic production and 150 are in the process of a 3 year transition period to obtain their organic certificate, all of which requires more intensive farming practices but much healthier for the planet.

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